Charter for the APS Experiment Safety Review Board
May 12, 2011

1. Purpose

The APS Experiment Safety Review Board (ESRB) advises the AES Division
Director on the safe implementation of experiments performed by
APS users on the experiment hall floor.

The ESRB reviews each experiment that is submitted to the APS
via the APS Experiment Safety Assessment System (ESAF). These experiments
are conducted in beamline endstations in the APS Experiment Hall.

2. Membership

The ESRB members are appointed by the AES Division Director. The
current members of the ESRB are:

Bruce Glagola

AES - Chair

Edmund Chang

AES

Paul Rossi

XSD

Nena Moonier

AES

Tom Barkalow

PSC

Patricia Pedergnana

AES

Wendy VanWingeren

AES

3. Method

After an experiment is submitted to the APS Experiment Safety Review
system notification is forwarded to the APS and the appropriate
beamline. The flow of the safety review is as described in the
latest revision of the “APS Beamline Experiment Safety Reviews" section of the
"APS User Safety Policies and Procedures”, APS_1258430.

The ESRB (either the whole ESRB or individual members) reviews
each experiment to ensure that they appear to:

Adequately describe the experiment

Identify all significant risks to personnel and the environment

Define a hazard control strategy satisfying ANL requirements
and capable of reducing risks to acceptable levels

If all requirements are met the ESRB will approve the experiment.
It should be noted that approval by the host beamline is also required.

If a member of the ESRB is not available to approve an experiment
and/or verify hazard controls are in place (when required) then
the approval/verification will be done by the AES Division Director
or the AES ADD for APS Accelerator & User Operations.

4. Frequency of Meetings

The ESRB meets weekly during scheduled APS User runs to discuss experiments awaiting approval.
More frequent meetings are on an as-needed basis.

5. Experiment Record keeping

All Experiment Safety Assessment Forms are kept in an ORACLE database
at the APS. In addition, the ESRB chair will maintain a copy of
the signed Experiment Authorization Forms for 1 year after completion
of the experiment and will archive these records for an additional
4 years through the APS Document Control Center. The ESRB Chair
will indefinitely retain all experiment safety review and authorization
records for every experiment involving:

Any accident (i.e., every lost-time accident, every recordable
worker injury or illness, every reportable environmental incident,
and every reportable, but non recordable injury or illness)